Blockchain Revolution Series

IBM Launches Enterprise-Ready Blockchain Services for Hyperledger Fabric v 1.0 on IBM Cloud

Mar 20, 2017 04:04 am UTC| Technology

IBMtoday announced the new release of IBM Blockchain, the first enterprise-ready blockchain service based on the Linux Foundations Hyperledger Fabric version 1.0. The service enables developers to quickly build and host...

Google Calls Google Assistant Audio Ad Not An Ad, Users Outraged

Mar 20, 2017 04:03 am UTC| Technology

Google built its entire empire on advertising revenue, which effectively makes it an ad company. By expanding to other areas such as self-driving cars, mobile phones, and the Google Assistant feature, its become easy to...

375GB Ram Possible With Intel Optane SSD

Mar 20, 2017 03:14 am UTC| Technology

With computer software becoming more demanding in terms of processing power, the thought of a RAM that could go as high as 375GB is practically a necessity, at this point. Short of government supercomputers, however, this...

Man Down! Uber Loses President Amid Turbulent State Of Affairs

Mar 20, 2017 02:50 am UTC| Technology

Uber is not having a very good year, with controversy after controversy hounding the cab-hailing company like flies chasing a dying animal. The most recent trouble to befall the firm is Jeff Jones, the Uber Presidents...

With battery storage to the rescue, the Kodak moment for renewables has finally arrived

Mar 20, 2017 02:12 am UTC| Technology

Who would have thought that, scarcely five weeks after Treasurer Scott Morrison, paraded a chunk of coal in parliament, planning for Australias energy needs would be dominated by renewables, batteries and hydro? For...

Tor upgrades to make anonymous publishing safer

Mar 20, 2017 01:56 am UTC| Technology

In the coming months, the Seattle-based nonprofit The Tor Project will be making some changes to improve how the Tor network protects users privacy and security. The free network lets users browse the internet anonymously....

When things go wrong in an automated world, would we still know what to do?

Mar 20, 2017 01:44 am UTC| Insights & Views Technology

We live in a world that is both increasingly complex and automated. So just as we are having to deal with more complex problems, automation is leading to an atrophy of human skills that may leave us more vulnerable when...